Staff Security Engineer, Red Team

October 15

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

Although this job is listed in Colorado, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

+17 more states

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🦞 Maine – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote 🍁 Vermont – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $216k - $289k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Instacart

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eCommerce • Transport • Retail

Instacart is a company that offers a flexible approach to work while transforming the grocery industry. It provides an essential service by delivering groceries and household goods to customers' doors in as little as 30 minutes. Instacart offers safe and flexible earning opportunities to personal shoppers and tackles challenges such as rerouting deliveries during snowstorms and connecting customers with coupons and deals. It aims to be the operating system for the grocery industry, thus helping customers save time for other activities. Instacart emphasizes diversity, equity, and belonging in its work culture.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

🛒 Retail

💰 $232M Venture Round on 2021-11

📋 Description

• Design and execute comprehensive red team operations targeting Instacart's unique attack surface (mobile apps, web platform, logistics systems, payment processing, customer/shopper data) • Develop annual red team roadmap aligned with business priorities and emerging threats to e-commerce platforms • Collaborate with leadership to prioritize high-value targets and realistic threat scenarios • Present findings and strategic recommendations to executive leadership • Lead complex red team engagements simulating advanced persistent threats and organized cybercrime groups • Conduct adversary emulation exercises based on threat intelligence relevant to retail, fintech, and logistics sectors • Test security controls across cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), mobile applications (iOS/Android), APIs, and internal networks • Execute social engineering campaigns against employees, shoppers, and corporate functions • Develop custom tooling, exploits, and tradecraft specific to Instacart's technology stack

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in offensive security, penetration testing, or a related field, with proven expertise in red team operations. • Strong understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), as well as frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. • Skilled in developing custom exploits, tools, or scripts using programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, C/C++, etc.). • Proficient in penetration testing for various environments, such as web applications, cloud infrastructures, and on-prem systems. • Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, including relevant exploitation techniques. • Experience conducting collaborative purple team exercises and improving detection and response strategies. • Ability to deliver comprehensive findings and recommendations tailored to technical and non-technical audiences. • Exceptional organizational and self-management skills for handling complex, cross-functional projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation • Eligible for new hire equity grant and annual refresh grants • Flex First remote work policy available